Ticket-case



UNITED STATES lPatrizia ir N OFFICE.-

ALviN R. BUR-Dick, on AiiRoRA, iLLINo1s TICKET-CASE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,789, dated February 5, 184. t Application filed June 8,188?. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALVIN R. BURDICK, of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Cases, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,illustrating the improvement, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective representation of a ticket-case embodying my improvements; Fig. 2, a longitudinal perspective view of the same; Fig. 3, a cross-section of Fig. 1 on line x.

rIhe present invention relates to an improve;

ment in that class of ticket or card cases in which the tickets or cards are held to the top I know that stamp-holders have been made with ends and sides complete, and provided with flanges, to hold the stamps in the box such as the stamp-holder patented to Phidello W.' Hall, May 1l, 1875, No. 164,833, Where the anges are cut off, so as tol -leave a space for the insertion of' the stamps. To introduce a suiiicient number of' stamps into the holder to fill it, they would have to be considerably bent, and, being flexible, this can be readily done; but it would be impracticable to insert ordinary tickets or cards therein, because they are comparatively iniiexible, and could not be sufficiently bent. I also know that ticketcases have been made with flanges on their sides,wherein the tickets are inserted through a hinged end; but I do not believe thatticketcases have been made or used which have complete ends and sides which will allow of the tickets or cards being forced between the flanges into the case by means of the cover, as hereinafter more fully described and shown.

The case' is made of light metalplate, with a bottom, A, cover B,.sides J, and ends C D.

The end C is'less in height than the end Dand sides J, that the tickets may be drawn out from under the cover B. Flanges F are formed by bending the upper middle portions of sides J J slightly inward, and their lpurpose is both to hold the cards in the case and to admit the cards to be put in a body into the case through the top thereof. The advantage of this is that the expense of ahinged part is obviated, and the saving of time of putting the cards endwise and singly in the case where the ends are closed. The spring G, riveted to the under side of the platen H, is of such form and strength as to lieat, or nearly so, on the bottom Awhen the case is full of tickets, and will hold the tickets up to the flanges, to be removed from the box.

To insert the cards and tickets, they are placed on the upper part of the flanges F, (the cover being raised.) The cover B is then closed, to'force the tickets between the flanges and into the case; or the requisite number of tickets may be placed on the under side of the cover, and forced into the box by the closing In either case it will be ob-n of the cover. K served that the tickets or cards are not forced flatly or bodily past the flanges into the box;

but, instead thereof, the ends of the cards nearest to the hinge of the cover are first forced between them. No inconsiderable friction on the edges of the cards is attained by thus placi ing them in the box, for the reason that the flanges are very narrow and extend only over the middle portions of the sides J ,where- Vby the latter may spring slightly outward by thepcontact of the cards with the anges. It

ill be observed that where the cards com'- mence to enter the box near the hinge to the cover there are no flanges; hence the cards, when placed against the cover, fall between the sides of' the box at the hinged end by theI partial closing of the cover, and are thus in positions to be forced between the flanges by the further shutting of the cover. In other words, the cards commence entering the box in a diagonal position, and are made to lie flat in the box by the shutting of the co/ver. I claim as new and desireto secure byLetters Patentv/ Aticket/Qrcard case composed of solid ends,

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bottom, and sides, and a hinged cover, one l Iche sides of the box, and be forced past the end of the box being made narrower for withdrawing the cards, and the middle portions of the tops of the sides provided with narrow inwzgrdly-turned anges F,with spaces between the anges and the hinged end of the eoveigwhereby cards placed 011 the underside of the cover will at their ends pass between anges, and lie fiat in the box7 by the shutting 1o of the cover, as specified.

ALVIN R. BURDICK.

witnesses:

G. L. CHAPIN, A. G. MOREY. 

